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Cerbos named a Sample Vendor for AuthZEN in the Gartner® Hype Cycle™ for Digital Identity, 2026
The Gartner Hype Cycle for Digital Identity, 2026 includes AuthZEN as a category, with Cerbos named as a Sample Vendor. We cover what the OpenID AuthZEN standard does, why interoperable authorization matters as AI agents spread, and where Cerbos fits.

Cerbos Hub has a new interface
Cerbos Hub has a new interface. Dark and light themes that follow your system, an organization and workspace switcher on every screen, more rows per page in policy lists and audit logs, and improved accessibility. Nothing to migrate and no action needed.

What's new in Cerbos Hub: audit log exports and a playground that tells you what's wrong
A rundown of the latest Cerbos Hub updates. Audit log exports you can pull into your own tooling for archiving or compliance, playground compiler errors with line and column detail, schema validation on principal and resource fixtures, and egress IPs for GitHub allow lists.

The Cerbos Hub effect matrix: read your authorization policy at a glance
See how the Cerbos Hub effect matrix turns authorization policy files into a permissions grid of roles and actions, with allowed, denied, and conditional outcomes. Read what each role can do without parsing raw policy, drill into ABAC conditions, and spot over-permissive wildcard rules in review.

Introducing Cerbos Hub Insights: A live view of what your authorization layer is doing
Cerbos Hub Insights aggregates the decisions your PDPs make into charts and rankings, so patterns like a spike in denials become obvious without scrolling the audit log. Track allows, denies, and active principals over time, built entirely from audit data you already send to Cerbos Hub.

AuthZEN wins Outstanding Project Recognition at EIC 2026
OpenID AuthZEN won the Outstanding Project Recognition award at EIC 2026, with Cerbos CPO Alex Olivier co-chairing the working group. Here's what the interoperability standard means for authorization, why it matters as AI agents act on behalf of users, and how Cerbos implements it.

From open-source policy engine to enterprise authorization management platform
From open-source policy engine to complete authorization platform: how Cerbos evolved to cover every access control use case.

Introducing Cerbos Synapse: unified authorization context and enforcement across your stack
Learn how Cerbos Synapse centralizes authorization context and enforcement by assembling identity and resource data and applying consistent policies across your stack

Fine-grained authorization for AI agents with Cerbos and Aperture by Tailscale
Learn how to enforce fine-grained authorization for AI agents and LLM tool calls with Cerbos and Tailscale Aperture.

Cerbos Hub Playground: Recent updates
Explore the latest Cerbos Hub Playground updates, including permission matrices, execution traces, diff views, templates, and sandboxed policy testing to build and debug authorization faster.

Announcing ePDP Rules: Fine-grained control for embedded policy bundles
Learn about ePDP Rules that have been released. Take advantage of fine-grained control over bundle composition and distribution. Deploy policies more broadly while maintaining security and performance.

Cerbos Hub is now available on-premise
Cerbos Hub is now available self hosted and on premise, enabling centralized, auditable authorization for regulated, air-gapped, and private environments without relying on cloud-based control planes.

Year in review: 2025
Cerbos’ 2025 year in review. Enterprise adoption, audit-ready runtime authorization, AI and non-human identity security, plus key product releases and industry recognition.

OpenID AuthZEN is official, and Cerbos is ready
AuthZEN is now ratified. Learn how this new OpenID standard brings interoperable, fine-grained authorization to modern systems, how it complements OAuth and OIDC, and how Cerbos supports AuthZEN for scalable, externalized authorization.

Secure RAG: Implement LLM Access Control with Cerbos
Learn how to implement access control for RAG and LLMs. Maintain data security and compliance with fine-grained authorization for your RAG and LLMs. Enforce your organization’s permissions within your AI system.

Trace authorization decisions and track organization-wide usage with new Cerbos Hub features
Authorization debugging just got easier. We're shipping two features that tackle problems we've heard about repeatedly from customers running Cerbos at scale: understanding why specific authorization decisions were made and getting visibility into usage patterns across multiple teams.

Announcing the new Cerbos Hub usage dashboard
We are excited to launch the new usage dashboard in Cerbos Hub. This new feature provides a comprehensive, real-time view of your authorization service, allowing you to monitor key metrics, analyze trends, and gain valuable insights into your policies and their consumers.

Meet four new use cases in the updated Cerbos Hub
Cerbos Hub gives engineering, security, and IAM teams everything they need to manage authorization across any architecture at any scale. Learn about four new use cases: Fine-grained tenant specific authorization, dynamic policy management at scale, scalable NHI permission management, secure authorization for MCP servers.